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Unit2. World News: Earth and Environment Contents: Warming up News report City recycling Goals: To train students to recognize key words and phrases in listening To develop students’ ability to identify significant information through listening To activate students’ knowledge about environment To cultivate students’ ability of summarizing Teaching methods: Students’ listening; group discussion; teacher’s instruction Duration: 90 minutes Warming up A. blaze (n. v) [C] (a) bright flame or fire 火焰; 火光: Dry wood makes a good blaze. 乾木燃起夺目的火焰. (b) very large (often dangerous) fire 大火; 火灾: Five people died in the blaze. 有五人死於火灾.Rio de Janeiro（ former capital of Brazil） The new city, Brasilia, replaced Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil in 1960. Desertification is the process by which a piece of land becomes dry, empty, and unsuitable for growing trees or crops on. (土壤)荒漠化, 沙漠化A third of Africa is under threat of desertification. everglade ?n. marshland, swamp wetlands region in southern Florida大沼泽地Greenland ? n. self-governing island belonging to Denmark located between Iceland and the northeastern coastal islands of North America (largest island in the world) Listen to some sentences about environment and supply the missing information. Check the answers after students’ discussion. New research on the likely impact of climate change suggests that damage to crops in low-lying coastal regions could be worse than previously thought. More than 2000 delegates from around the world have gathered in northern Brazil for the third United Nations Conference on Desertification. Crews are working to clean up a huge oil spill off the coast of Mexico, about 50 miles south of San Diego. a port city in California (USA) Wildfires in the Florida Everglades have been contained after a nearly a week of blazes that consumed 65,000 hectares in the southern part of the States. A. US Space Agency study finds that Greenland is melting around the edges. The loss to the world’s